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Kirsten Brandt (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice embraces inquiries into gender, social and environmental justice, politics, and the intersection of theatre and technology. She is an award-winning playwright, director, teacher, and former...

Minnesotans are known for having a good hunker-down-for-the-winter game. We don’t hibernate. We make space for creativity. One need only take a drive up to Northern Minnesota to see signs for everything from blacksmithing to Anishinaabe birch basket making, from stained glass to Scandinavian folk art. Minnesotans know that even when...

Atlanta is slowly and cautiously welcoming audiences back to in-person theatre. Steps are being taken to ensure the safety of theatre personnel and audiences. Many of the smaller theatres have led the way for these safety protocols. The first theatre to put in place COVID-19 safety measures was...

Michael Ritchie, the current Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group, will be stepping down on December 31st. World premieres during his tenure include the...

MARJORIE BICKNELL:  Teresa, why Jouska Playworks? TERESA MILLER:  I was finishing at the Foundry and wondering, “What’s next? We didn’t have a Black playwrights’ group, and I thought, “Start one of your own!” I ran it by Keenya Jackson and Quinn Eli, and they were on board instantly. So, I’m the founder and they are the co-founders.  MB:  Caitlin, how did you...

How HONOR ROLL! is Taking on the “Age”-Old Problem of Ageism I have been thinking a lot about that expression, “Age is only in your mind,” because it has to be the most erroneous cliché that human lips ever uttered. We are a youth-...

Welcome cooler weather is returning to Oregon, which has been punished this summer by wildfires and heat. It seems that as soon as we started to think about organizing in-person events for dramatists in our fair state, the ongoing pandemic had other plans. So, we write, we collaborate, we figure it out… And our members have been as...

While contending with her failing health due to lupus, southern writer Flannery O’Connor wrote, “I can, with eyes squinted, take it all as a blessing.” This sentiment quintessentially represents the spirit of resilience and optimism of the playwrights in North and South Carolina. After a year and a half of collective agony over public...

On July 18, 2021, DG New York State held the first in-person event since the start of the pandemic. It was a writing process workshop led by DG Council member Deborah Zoe Laufer and hosted by me at New...

Despite the vagrancies induced by COVID, Michigan dramatists have three new–and renewed–ways to hear their art speak and see it blossom. First, the Vagrancy Theatre Company’s Michigan chapter inaugurated a writer’s group, a nine-month play development opportunity. This...

Market House Theatre, led by playwright and DG member Michael Cochran, hosted its very first Kentucky Playwright Series in August, featuring readings of six new plays by Kentucky playwrights in their outdoor courtyard space in downtown Paducah,...

When it comes to creating the first theatre space built for developing local playwrights, Zeiders American Dream Theater (a.k.a. The Z) is the only theatre that is taking in local...